Ms. Kagan noted that the Supreme Court had historically looked to the executive branch to take the lead on such international matters because of "the potentially significant foreign relations consequences of subjecting another sovereign state to suit".
Zbigniew Brzezinksi, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, ventured a guess at the foreign policy consequences of a Thurmond presidency, saying, "We probably would have had a very serious global polarization on the racial issue with America increasingly isolated and never able to make the human rights case".
Domestic upheaval may also have foreign policy consequences, as the government seeks to shore up its military defences to guard against any attempt by outside powers to exploit the instability at home.
On the other hand there seem to be no immediate foreign policy consequences resulting from the US Marine rotation.
For these reasons, Albright testified that a stay would have "serious adverse foreign policy consequences" and be "sharply contrary to the public interest".
The DNC email hack "could have significant foreign policy consequences," as Edward Snowden tweeted in July, especially if similar operations target U.S. political elections or those of allied nations in the future.
Corresponding threats included (1) an absence of formal training of project staff on broader political and international relations roles and responsibilities, (2) challenges to recipient cultural and religious practices, (3) intervention-related environmental concerns, and (4) a lack of prima facie consideration of intervention diplomatic and foreign policy consequences.
Thus American policy makers may have to decide whether the risks of global market instability and the foreign-policy consequences of relying on Middle Eastern oil are severe enough to make switching to heavy oil a priority.
He wants to be able to label any failures of American foreign policy, the consequences of a refusal to heed his warnings.
If there were still a universal draft, if foreign policy had consequences that reached into every home, would we have blundered our way into war in Iraq and allowed a second war to distract us from finishing the first?
